Incremental gain by upgrading Raspberry Pi 3B+

[gatorback]

System:

• rPi3: quad core / 1GB RAM
• USB 2.0 connection to SATA SSD
• NO sh-card
• Fiber optic connection
• Server is only 1 mile away from the house
• able to SSH into NC network and send terminal command (ping, ssh)

Observations:

• NC webpages are not returned very quickly
• Sometimes the NextCloud App is able to access the server but Safari is unable
  => ssh into router and pinging the NC-server helps (sometimes)
• When both App / Safari do not connect, I tried
  => pinging the server is successful
  => ssh into NC-server hangs

Reliabiability is not satisfactory: I am driving to the office to physically reboot the NC-server. I

I am considering upgrading to a rPi5 and would like to simply plug the plugin the current USB SSD.

I would like to understand if I should expect:

1. improvement in website rendering?
   => both V5 and V3 pi have 4 cores, however
   => V5 has more RAM and
   => V5 has more USB SSD bandwidth and NVMe capability
2. improvement with website reliability: consistently return the login page?

Assume the network connection is not the issue: I am able to verify this with SSH terminal commands.

If you have rPi3b+ upgrading to rPi5 or 4 experience, please state this in your reply. Thank you: I am grateful for the support of the community.

[wwe]

hi, I can’t tell from practical experience but AFAIK Pi4 and Pi5 are far more powerful than Pi3 especially more RAM and better disk is beneficial for server applications - so in my eyes performance should improve.